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gillenia (iou)



gillenia noun. E19.
[mod. Latin (see below), from Arnold Gill or Gillenius, 17th-cent. German botanist: see -IA1.]
Either of two N. American herbaceous plants of the genus Gillenia, of the rose family (also called Indian physic); the root of such a plant, used as an emetic.